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Blockchain blunder: NBA Top Shot, the league s NFT platform, is ripe for money laundering, one expert says - and scores of IRATE collectors are struggling to withdraw their money The NBA and Canadian blockchain company Dapper Labs partnered to launch NBA Top Shot in 2019, offering fans the chance to buy tokenized league highlights and then sell them on a peer-to-peer market Non-fungible tokens are units of data that are stored on a blockchain, an electronic ledger that can only be altered publicly. Unlike cryptocurrencies, NFTs are unique, which is why they re popular as collectibles The league has already recorded $500 million in sales on NBA Top Shot, which mints and sells limited tokenized NBA highlights called moments. Several LeBron James moments have sold for over $200,000 ....
Ag Future scholarships announced Garden City Telegram American Implement and Western State Bank have announced the winners of their 2021 Ag Future Scholarships. The scholarship program provides a total of 10, $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who intend to pursue an Ag-related program or degree at a university, community college or technical school. Applicants from 16 western Kansas counties applied, and the following students were chosen as recipients: - Blakely Aldridge, Weskan High School - Garin Cooper, Saint Francis Community High School - Kayler Getz, Quinter High School - Cole Lehman, Ingalls High School - Rilee McGraw, Garden City High School - Matthew Morgan, Lakin High School ....
Kennebec County settles excessive force lawsuit against jail guard The county s insurer paid $30,000 to settle the complaint by an inmate who was pepper-sprayed in 2019. Share Kennebec County has settled a federal lawsuit brought by a man who said a jail guard used pepper spray on him and then assaulted him while he was confined in 2019. Jonathan Afanador filed his excessive force complaint in the U.S. District Court of Maine in July. He sued the county and the individual guard, and both filed responses later that month that admitted to some basic facts in the complaint but denied most of the claims. The parties then filed a dismissal in court last month, and lawyers representing them either did not respond to inquiries or said they could not talk about the case. The manager of the county’s insurer said the settlement amount is $30,000. ....
Warner Music Nashville has signed the Zac Brown Band to a recording contract in partnership with the group's label Home Grown Music, it was announced today. ....
The training helps police identify behaviours indicative of mental illness, and provides them with tools and crisis intervention techniques to manage them, as well as understanding of the current Mental Health Act. âHowever, high profile cases, such as police fatal shootings of mentally ill individuals, tend to receive media attention and, thus, skew public perception that the police are not handling these cases well,â Kruger told Guardian Australia. âSuch cases also lead to the perception of mental illness as âcriminalâ or âdangerousâ, which is rarely the case. Research has also found that, in general, police are âgatekeepersâ or a âone stop shopâ for complicated social issues, including mental health.â ....